bigcatt
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What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
I have 0.01% musical talent, skill or understanding (a marked improvement over my previous state of 0%), but I love hearing what you guys can do. After reading posts about plugin addictions, sales and upcoming K11, it struck me to ask what is the actual improvement in your music making if you acquire all these things?
So here's the challenge. Make the best 60 seconds of music you can make using what you own right now. Then after you acquire your new stuff over the Black Friday / Christmas holidays come back and remake your 60 seconds. Has it improved and by how much?
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/18 21:09:26
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☄ Helpfulby Mesh 2016/07/19 08:44:37
No you misunderstand, we are plugin collectors. Were like those who collect classic cars and antique's of sorts. We don't even need a plugin to make 60 seconds of good music but it's so much fun filling up the FX bin with cool looking plugins that all do pretty much the same thing. Just ask the plugin expert Bapu. He'll set you straight.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/18 21:09:44
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/18 21:33:05
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"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" (Wish You Were Here)
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bigcatt
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/18 23:07:41
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Did you do the just the music or the skydiving as well?! ;P Nice job.
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musichoo
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/19 02:54:09
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Just the music. I did cut and paste the video .
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/19 02:57:52
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/19 04:15:07
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For me it's all about ease of use, i.e., key-switching, RR, velocity, ADSR, etc. are not the same for virtual instruments. The best ones let the user to just load and play, whereas simpler instruments may require countless tweaking. The same is true with FX.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/19 07:31:34
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If you're looking for rational "costification" you're going to be disappointed 
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/19 17:54:46
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At this point most new instrument acquisitions represent a small, incremental addition to an already-large toolkit. I might sit on a Kontakt library for months before finding a place for it, and even then it might make only a minor contribution.
There are exceptions, of course. Talking about those instruments that fill a major gap in your repertoire or make difficult parts easier, and thus alter the way you do things. For example, Kirk Hunter Concert Strings was my first serious string library. It changed the way I approach orchestration, made me more attentive to detail, and spurred me to tackle more ambitious string arrangements.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/19 21:06:26
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☄ Helpfulby cclarry 2016/07/19 21:31:16
I'm gonna try something with Albion One.
Just got it in. I'm thinking it will be a nice in-between for Garritan's Instant Orchestra and GPO5 on one hand and EW Hollywood Orchestra on the other.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 11:35:45
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For me it's about inspiration. Only so many times I can start with a blank slate and try getting a track started with the same piano sound. Even if a new one is only slightly different (and even if I could have made the difference myself by tweaking a few knobs), having those new presets helps me get started.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 17:18:42
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BobF
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 17:22:43
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Mosvalve
No you misunderstand, we are plugin collectors. Were like those who collect classic cars and antique's of sorts. We don't even need a plugin to make 60 seconds of good music but it's so much fun filling up the FX bin with cool looking plugins that all do pretty much the same thing. Just ask the plugin expert Bapu. He'll set you straight.
I'm not sure if this was to be humorous but it really hit home. Some of my most productive stuff was using a Voyetra sound card, Yamaha XG50 midi player and a Casio keyboard before USB midi. I started on Cakwalk Music Creator, then I move on to Sonar 2 XL, Gigastudio 2.5. After that so many VSTs, DAWs,pro audio cards, then it went downhill.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 17:27:43
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When I'm stuck I mess around with loops-them I'm still stuck. I use notepad to write down chord progression, products to combine. The problem with chord is I forget to write the voicing which can make a difference- I'm still stuck. Then I go to these forums to offer my opinions I'm still stuck. I gotta lotta cool stuff though - I'm still stuck.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 17:44:58
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I use notepad to write down chord progression, products to combine.
Ooh, was there some kind of deal on Notepad? 
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 17:46:45
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kitekrazy1
I use notepad to write down chord progression, products to combine.
Ooh, was there some kind of deal on Notepad?
Nope that's free. Funny how I make more use of free stuff.
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/20 18:00:23
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Haha yea, I use Notepad for every major project I work on. Can't beat it. :-)
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Re: What is the best 60 seconds of music you can make with your current software?
2016/07/21 00:08:29
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Did someone say free? I dunno if it is right but someone said when you get stuck look at the chords that work well together and in what order chart and create 4 / 8 / 16 measures of chords and write a melody over the top.
Oh and i love free.
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